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1. Thank you card by Caroline Shinnie

   Posted on 4:35pm Monday 3rd Mar 2014

   Stamps and ink pads used A6 Flower Angel   Memento - Tuxedo Black   Distress Ink - Pumice Stone   Other Items Used MDF Heart from 52 shape pack   Glossy Accents   Ribbon   String Square Doily Stapler Promarkers - Grey Green, Sandstone, Powder Blue, Bluebell, Soft Green, Pastel Green, Tan, Blush & Dusky Pink. Cream Acrylic paint

   For the background, fold a square Doily in half to make a triangle and distress the edges with Pumice Stone. Cut a triangle of Spotty Background paper for the other side, leaving a 1cm gap diagonally across the card. Stamp the small flower stamp in the gap and colour it using Promarkers. Attach doily and spotty card.  For the topper, stamp the Angel in Black Memento, and colour her in using Promarkers. Add glossy accents to her flowers. Stamp the single flower around the Angel in Pumice Stone and ink the edges, cut out with a die of your choice or deckle edge scissors.  For the MDF heart shape, paint with the cream acrylic and when dry stamp the flowers from the angel set using Pumice Stone Distress ink. Stamp the Sentiment over the top in Black Memento, add string and staple it to the top of the card. for finishing touches, staple some ribbon to the side of the topper, before attaching to the card with 3D foam pads or silicone glue.

2. Medieval Jewel Card by Caroline Shinnie

   Posted on 8:46am Saturday 1st Mar 2014

    

   
   

   Stamps used Medieval Background Flutterby   Ink pads used   Memento - Tuxedo Black Distress inks - Mowed Lawn & Peacock Feathers   For the background, use the Medieval stamp in Black Memento on white card and cut it out. Then distress the edges with Peacock feathers. Randomly colour in some parts of the stamp using Soft green, Meadow green and Denim Blue Promarkers. Stick this to a Black card blank. For the Butterflies, stamp another piece of white card with Black Memento, and then stamp the Butterfly using a clear inkpad and green embossing powder, and then cut it out. Distress the edges of the Butterflies, with Mowed Lawn and Peacock feathers, and add Jewels to decorate. To make the Butterfly bodies, make paper beads out of Medieval stamped card. Curve the wings and stick to the card using 3D silicone glue. To finish off, tie a piece of ribbon to the bottom of the card with a jewel brad in the centre.

                         

3. Dreams and Wishes by Caroline Shinnie

   Posted on 5:35pm Thursday 27th Feb 2014

   Stamps used  A6 Dandelion Dreams   Ink pads used  Versafine - Black  Brilliance - Pearlescent Sky Blue & Pearlescent Thyme   Stencils/masks used  Quattro Mask   Other products Buttons Liquid Pearls Peacock Wooden pegs Ribbon

   How to make

   Take a piece of black card and trim so that it covers two thirds of your square card blank. Emboss with the Quattro Mask using your die cutting machine then rub over it lightly with the Pearlescent Sky Blue ink pad to highlight the raised pattern. Distress the edges with scissors (run the blade carefully along the edge several times to rough it up), and then adhere it to a card blank. Cover the join with ribbons, and add a bow with a button.

   For the tag embellishment, take two sizes of white tag, and stamp the sentiment on the top one using the Black Versafine ink pad. Using Pearlescent Sky Blue Ink, stamp the flowers from the Dandelion Dreams set, randomly around the tags. Add a few leaves in Pearlescent Thyme and then add peacock liquid pearls to the flower centres. To finish off, add a few wooden pegs and buttons.